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New Grub Street: Unabridged edition

New Grub Street: Unabridged edition

Gissing, George

Paperback

Series: Immortal Classics

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1518820700
ISBN13: 9781518820700
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 28 2015
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
George Gissing's portrayal of the hard facts of a literary life remains as relevant today as it was in the late 19th century. First published in 1891, New Grub Street deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with hack literature; by Gissing's time, Grub Street itself no longer existed, though hack-writing certainly did. Its two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects, and a shy, cerebral man; and Jasper Milvain, a young journalist, hard-working and capable of generosity, but cynical and only semi-scrupulous about writing and its purpose in the modern (i.e. late Victorian) world. New Grub Street features as number 28 on the 100 Best Novels list published by The Guardian.

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